Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.